As part of a continuing series on the cross currents between traditional music and classical music, Performance Today explores the music of Scotland. Fiddler Alasdair Fraser, pianist Muriel Johnstone ...

We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

We're taking this week to explore some of the cross currents between traditional music and classical music on Performance Today. Today, we take you, musically at least, to Scotland. We'll start by ...

Head to the highlands this weekend, a place usually known as the Brooklyn Fairgrounds. The annual Highland Festival, a tradition of more than 30 years, was formerly held on at the historic Waldo ...

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It has been said that the difference between a fiddle and a violin is the player, so no one likely expected classical violinists to dominate the lively Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra — and they would have ...

We may take or leave Scotch plaid, Scotch whiskey, Scotch tape. But, love it or hate it, there's one wee bit of Scotland that can't be avoided. That's the annual orgy of sentiment that comes with a ...

Skerryvore is band with a great identity crisis. Call them a rock band with a Celtic-music habit, or a Celtic band with a rock-music habit, the Scotland-based group walks a fine-line between ...

The public is invited to see the cairn modeled after traditional Scottish stone markers, honoring thousands of Highland Scots ...

Canadians Cassie and Maggie MacDonald play fiddle and piano, an instrument combo that strikes American lovers of Celtic music as “odd,” says Cassie, speaking from her home in Halifax. “But it’s a ...

EAU CLAIRE— The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, perhaps the most famous bagpipe band in the world known for their fusion of traditional Scottish music with beloved rock and pop songs, is coming to the Pablo ...